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Shale in Dragon Age: Origins gets a telling remark about how attractive Sten's body looks in battle, while he affectionately calls her "kadan", a term that means something like "close to the heart" in the Qunari language.

Sten may also start using this term for the Warden, if his approval gets high enough.

Zevran flirts with most Anything That Moves, but special mention must go to his soliloquizing to Morrigan (in a bet with either Alistair, Oghren, or Leliana) about her beauty that would "turn the eye of the Maker Himself." There's also his leering at Wynne in particular and her "magical bosom."

Hilariously, if the Warden is female and on good terms with Oghren, he will at one point get so drunk that he starts hitting on her - but then pass out before anything comes of it.

One of the options for the Warden to learn the Duelist specialization from Isabela is to sleep with her instead of beating her in a card game. Depending on who's in the active party and what their relationship is with the Warden, this may also involve Alistair, Zevran, and/or Leliana.

In the Awakening expansion, despite there being no romance options, Nathaniel and Velanna's conversations contain a lot of Belligerent Sexual Tension, while Anders and a female Warden can engage in their fair share of flirting. Averted in the case of Oghren and Sigrun, where any Unresolved Sexual Tension is merely a figment of Oghren's booze-addled imagination.

Bethany will become flustered around Sebastian, if his DLC is installed, and he happily flirts with her if not romanced.

Carver has a very obvious crush on Merrill, who is either oblivious to it or very good at pretending to be. If they're brought for the Mark of the Assassin DLC, there's a bit of banter which suggests she's not as oblivious as it seems.

Aveline cannot be romanced by Hawke, but there is a point in the game where Hawke can flirt with her. She fails to catch on and it doesn't go anywhere.

If neither of them are romanced, Fenris and Isabela develop a Friends with Benefits relationship by the third act.

Hawke and Varric can flirt, with Varric even acknowledging that his friend is very attractive, but it's treated more like a running joke between them than anything. The game indicates as much; unlike Hawke's flirt dialogues with anyone else, Varric never has a heart icon next to any of the dialogue options when speaking to him.

Varric also flirts with Isabela. This too is treated mostly as a joke, centered in part around Varric's chest hair.

Somewhat more subtle than either of his other examples, but also sweeter and arguably more sincere, is Varric's flirtation with Bethany; they have a lot of affectionate banter. Bringing them along for either DLC campaign gives them additional flirty screen time. If she's still alive in Inquisition, it's implied that he writes to her frequently.

At the end of Zevran's quest, if Isabela is in the active party and not in a romance with Hawke, they will go off together to hook up. Alternately, if Hawke is single, s/he may hook up with Zevran instead, optionally including Isabela.

The Mark of the Assassin DLC also brings us a brief possible romance between Tallis and Hawke.

In addition to the various romance options, the Inquisitor can flirt with Scout Harding, who - if it happens often enough - will eventually flirt back. However, she's not a real romance option, much to the disappointment of fans, although Trespasser can potentially reveal that she and the Inquisitor did at least date a bit between the main game and the DLC.

The Descent DLC strongly hints at something between Shaper Valta and Legionnaire Renn. A war table operation concerning his stolen remains after the DLC is finished only adds to the curiosity.

One would be forgiven for mistaking Locke rescuing Terra in the opening minutes and his promise to stay with her until her memory returns as a Rescue Romance, but he quickly moves on to form the closest thing the game has to an Official Couple with Celes.

Terra also gets a Ship Tease scene on an actual ship with first General Leo, then Shadow.

Tifa's introduced in a Bait-and-Switch where we're meant to think she's the mother of Cloud's child, before we realise the little girl is actually Barret's. Immediately after, she and Cloud reminisce about a promise under the stars they had when they were kids. When Cloud tells the story of Nibelheim, he goes in her room and pokes around in her bedroom, and teases Tifa by pretending to have gone through her drawers (which makes her cross).

Aeris tells Cloud that if he acts as her bodyguard she'll go out with him, and we don't know if Cloud's participation is out of hatred for the Shinra or a desire for a date. Cait Sith looks at Cloud and Aeris's horoscopes and determines that they'd be a perfect matchjust before she leaves your party and is killed by Sephiroth.

Yuffie will kiss Cloud if you take her on the Gondola.

Barret gets a lot of Ho Yay with Cloud, getting moved when Cloud talks with him about politics and nervously apologising to him after realising he's not all bad. If the player chooses to have Cloud compliment Barret's sailor suit ("a bear wearing a marshmallow"), they'll later find Barret locked in a room with a mirror, checking himself out. He even gets Gay Bravado flirting and the opportunity to date Cloud.

It even has instances of Ship Tease with random male characters, like Mukki and Don Corneo.

Barret and Tifa get teased throughout, but particularly in the second disc where Aeris is gone and Tifa becomes Cloud's primary love interest. He gets jealous of her feelings towards Cloud, though it's unclear if it's because of his confused feelings about Cloud in general. She helps him look after his daughter, he calls her 'some kinda lady'...

The Turks get a bit. Rude admits to liking Tifa. Tseng asks Elena out for dinner, but has a certain amount of involvement with Aeris, who Reno says he 'likes'. Aeris doesn't seem interested, but she doesn't seem all that scared of him either, and she expresses attachment to him when she finds his unconscious body, saying he's one of the only people who really knows her.

Depending on your affection rating, you can have Tidus outright tell Lulu or Rikku that he would rather have them in Guadosalam. Rikku will get a little weirded out (which makes sense given she and Tidus are Like Brother and Sister) while Lulu simply says "hmm, I could add you to my list."

Lulu gets teased with Wakka quite a bit since she used to date his brother. Then come the sequel, they're an Official Couple with a baby on the way.

Rikku also gets a Ship Tease with Gippal in X-2. An optional conversation has him saying the two "were quite the couple", though Rikku denies it. However she shows plenty of signs throughout the game such as ordering everyone to go and rescue him. The two are also seen leaving the Farplane together at the end.

It's subtle, but there is a little shipteasing between Balthier and Fran in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. When Tomas is trying to woo Fran, she mentions that Balthier's methods were different. You might also count the scene in the Pharos when the Sun Cryst explodes from the original game as rather shippy. Balthier's lines regarding Fran always have some kind of sexual undertone to them (but hey, don't all his lines?)

Balthier: "No one knows men like Fran does."

Balthier: "I always knew Fran didn't take well to being tied up. I just never knew how much. How about you?"

Ashe and Basch is also plausible. In the ending, Penelo writes to Larsa, and she tells him how she hopes Basch will see Ashe because she thinks Ashe misses him (which Basch reads after Larsa hands him the letter).

Penelo also gets a lot of scenes with Larsa in the first game, which could be construed as this, and they certainly seem to feel affectionately for each other.

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has a lot of Hope/Lightning tease. Hope giving up the chance to be reborn with his parents in favor of saving Lightning, or Lightning desperately trying to grab his hand as his body disintegrates, are just a few of many examples. The rest (and, again, there's a lot) can be found on the game's main trope page.

A series of scenes involves Firion trying to approach Lightning to talk to her, only for a string of Moment Killers to scare him off. It turns out he lost his rose and she found it, and he's trying to ask for it back but is embarrassed about the Hot-Blooded rebel having to ask the resident Action Girl for his flower (in his exact words, "a grown man asking for his flower back..."). However, the subtext is very thin, and is complete with Cecil appointing himself Firion's wingman.

And then when he finally does get to talk to her, the Ship Tease still goes strong as Lightning returns it to him and notes that for both of them, the sight of that rose is the key to their memoriesexplanation In Firion's case, the phrase "Wild Rose" is a Continuity Nod to the Wild Rose Rebellion that Firion and his friends were a part of; in Lightning's case, her Eidolon-summoning crystal was shaped like a rose, and splitting it caused a shower of rose petals, and asks him to keep it safe because when he remembers everything, she might need it back for help with the same. He watches her leave with a dreamy smile.

Terra gets ship teases with Onion Knight, Cloud and Vaan. Vaan and Onion Knight appoint themselves her protectors, worrying about her safety and counselling her on following her heart to find out what she truly wants. Cloud meanwhile waxes poetic with her about their dreams for the future in spite of their self-doubts. When Cecil, again playing Shipper on Deck, asks Onion Knight if he's fallen for her, he denies it, but in a fairly flustered manner.

Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem lets you control the amount of Ship Tease in your game with its support conversations. Starting with the sixth game, each character has 3-7 characters they're compatible with and some of them might lead to a Relationship Upgrade. The conversations for Support Levels C and B are the cute Ship Tease ones with 95% of the A level conversations being the actual declaration of love. Roy at first is the only one who can pair up with others and have it noted in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, but later on, this system extended to beyond the main lord.

Blazing Sword goes even further with this for the Lord characters. While Eliwood, Lyn, and Hector have several romantic options each, Ninian is canonically in love with Eliwood no matter what supports you choose, and you get a special ending where she stays with him at the end. Hector, meanwhile, gets numerous scenes alone with Lyn in Hector Mode, including two special conversations towards the end that can only be unlocked if they have A Support. Neither of his other two love interests get equivalent scenes, and both the unique A Support sequences play music tracks that aren't used anywhere else in the entire game.

While Path of Radiance's ending establishes no pairings (you only get a different last line from the person Ike has A Support with), the system returns in Radiant Dawn. The Support conversations are usually far more generic, however. But like Blazing Sword, some pairs get special conversations near the end if they have reached A Support by then, them being Boyd/Mist, Sothe/Micaiah, and Ike/Soren. There are others with paired endings as well, such as Jill/Haar and Leanne/Naesala.

The Heroes of Light and Darkness remake has some between the male Avatar and Katarina. When he talks to her during her boss fight in Chapter 16x, she'll tell him that her dream was the two of them becoming Royal Guards, saving many people, being hailed as heroes...and then she finishes with the rather suspect line of "and then you and I...we, um...we... ...never mind."

Even before support conversations were introduced in the sixth game, the series had some shipping—the fourth game actually used it as a game mechanic. The prologue and Chapter 1 both revolve around rescuing Adean, and by the time they're done, Midayle, Jamke, Azel, and possibly Dew have all received Ship Tease with her. The following chapter, Sylvia and Ferry both join and are both immediately Teased with another of your new recruits, Lewyn, with the former also getting an optional conversation teasing her with Alec. Then Tailto shows up and is blatantly shown to have a crush on Claud, while the chapter after that has a conversation between Sylvia and Ferry that again plays up their Love Triangle with Lewyn.

The second generation is just as blatant. Right from the start, Seliph is heavily teased with Julia, while both Johan and Johalva have feelings for Larcei which can be used to recruit one of them. At the start of the next chapter, Patty immediately starts fangirling Shanan, while Larcei also has some teasing with Shanan once he rejoins the group. Then Ares shows up with Leen, already seemingly an item even though from a mechanics standpoint they aren't, and later still Patty/Lester and Lana/Faval can both get conversations shipping them if neither half of one of those pairings has a spouse yet. Finally, while all of the girls except Julia (and Altenna, who is heavily teased with her adoptive brother Areone and can't actually be married to any of the male units in your army) have potential conversations with a few of the guys in the final chapter if they're already married to that character, resulting in the male unit getting a stat boost, Tinny and Arthur have a conversation in the same chapter that gives both of them a slight stat boost that's only available if neither is married yet.

The fifth game didn't let up, either. Among new characters, there's Tanya/Orsin, Dagda/Marty, Karin/Fergus, Fred/Olwen, Linoan/Dean, and Miranda/Conomore, as well as the one-sided Lifis-->Safy. It also serves as a Cutting Off the Branches for the fourth game, as Ced is able to wield Forseti here, making Lewyn/Ferry canon, while Leif/Nanna becomes an Official Couple at the end and...well, Raquesis's choice falls halfway between Cutting Off the Branches and Take a Third Option. note While the mechanics behind pairing in Genealogy of the Holy War would force Delmud and Nanna to be full siblings, they're half-siblings here, with Delmud being Beowulf's son and Nanna being Finn's daughter. Fergus is also Beowulf's son, but strangely it's Fergus, not Delmud, who is implied to be a bastard.

Chrom and Sumia: A.) She's the only character along with Chrom, Lissa, Validar, and Lucina to appear in an animated cutscene (originally called "Lovebirds", wherein Sumia rescues Chrom from some enemy units on her pegasus); B.) Both she and Chrom have a small pool of love interests (four for Sumia and five for Chrom, counting the generic village girl, and they can also get with the Avatar depending on the gender you give him/her), while the others have a much wider pool (and the Avatar can get with anybody of the opposite gender); C.) When Chrom picks a bride at the end of Chapter 11 (assuming the player hasn't initiated an S Support with any other units before then), Sumia can get top priority over Chrom's other options save for maybe Olivia note (Sumia > Maribelle > Sully > Olivia > FeMU > Random Villager Girl) (if they're tied in Support points/Support Level and are above C Rank; see Olivia's section below for more details) and gets an extended version of the post-chapter confession scene note where, instead of Lissa, Flavia, and Basilio (and the Avatar, if the player isn't marrying a female Avatar) leaving before Chrom pops the question, Sumia flies in and hugs Chrom while fretting over him; and D.) the intro of the game shows Chrom and Sumia as the Ylissean Ruling Couple, baby Lucina included. Flavia even casts her lot with the two as a couple after seeing Sumia punch Chrom (unintentionally; she was aiming for a slap) to get him out of his funkwhen his sister Emmeryn returns to Ylisstol—into the hands of Plegia—at the end of Chapter 7, and tells them to Get a Room! in the aforementioned confession scene.

Chrom and the Avatar: Despite how the Avatar can get with anybody of the opposite sex, s/he and Chrom are still extremely close whether they marry or not. And unlike the above case of Chrom and Sumia, the Ship Tease remains even if Chrom marries someone else than the Avatar and/or s/he is either single or married to anybody else, to the degree where fans complained about it. note Any other spouse of Chrom, the aforementioned Sumia and below mentioned Olivia included, will be Demoted to Extra after Chapter 13 aka Lucina's official recruitment, save for their mother/daughter Supports and Future Past talks) Since the Avatar can be a man or a woman, it has different results:

Both Avatars: Aside of the already mentioned "two halves of a coin" speech by Chrom, in The Future Past DLC, Grima (though the Avatar's body) will taunt Lucina, saying the person "who controlled this body loved [Chrom]" — which does NOT change if the Avatar is married to someone else, or even if the Avatar happens to be a man (and maybe even Lucina's own lover). Note that this is a case of Dub Text though: the Japanese version just had Grima say Chrom was ambiguously a "very important person" to the Avatar. Not to mention, when the Avatar of either gender or marriage is trapped by Grima at the end, s/he can only be brought back by the sound of Chrom's voice.

Female Avatar: Their supports play out in Belligerent Sexual Tension manner, which is a very popular (if token, for some) romance trope, and it's extremely easy to get them married to each other practically by mistake/accident.note (More exactly, by unlocking even one Support while either forgetting or ignoring that Chrom needs to be married off in Chapter 11, which will likely lock all their other prospect spouses out unless they have higher Support levels). If the Avatar marries Chrom, there's LOTS of romantic/familiar drama in their future since she's the perfect vessel of Grima, including a far more dramatic "Lucina's Judgement" scene where Lucina ultimately breaks down sobbing for not being able to kill her mother to save the world, meaning that the plot itself can be seen catering to the Female Avatar x Chrom couple. (The only one that compares in that sense is Lucina x a Male Avatar.) If she doesn't marry Chrom, Lucina will be hostile to the Female Avatar and accuse her of wanting to seduce Chrom, then be offended to see the Female Avatar isn't in romantic love with him and will almost demand that she falls for Chrom's "charms." Even more, the Cipher card game has two very "suspicious" cards regarding Chrom and the Female Avatar: they depict a scenario where Chrom◊ not only failed to stop the Grima-possessed Avatar, but ended up dying and being resurrected as the ruler of the Risen due to his holy blood, and as said below she's depicted in a companion card as the Vessel of Grima◊.

Male Avatar: His supports with Chrom play out in a very Ho Yay-tastic way, with him acting as a borderline "nagging wife" towards him. Some fans have joked that Male Avatar's C-through-A supports would have worked even better for a Female Avatar romancing Chrom than her own lines, plus they get near everything the Female Avatar gets regarding Chrom save for marriage and Lucina's above-mentioned nagging.

Outside of Chrom's matters, there's Lon'qu and Chrom's little sister Lissa. Their supports state that Lon'qu was specifically made into Lissa's bodyguard by Chrom himself, at some point he saves Lissa from being shot by arrows, and this last part can be seen as potentially mirroring the father-child talks with Lissa's son Owain — where Owain's dad is said to have died in exactly the same manner.

While the Avatar can marry anyone, as previously mentioned, the Male Avatar gets quite a bit of shipping with Lucina, as she's the female with whom he interacts with the most throughout the game, and they bond over their desire to protect Chrom and save the world. Perhaps most significantly, though, would be the scene in which Lucina realizes that it's the Avatar who kills Chrom in the Bad Future and goes to kill him. If he's married to her, she'll find herself unable to do it out of her love for him...something that only happens otherwise if the Female Avatar is her mother.

Vaike and Miriel can be potentially seen as having this, too. When they appear first, Vaike has misplaced his axe and Miriel returns it to him — and a talk with Miriel's son Laurent states that his father often used to misplace stuff…

The game contains a retroactive example by providing Ship Tease for characters from the previous game in the DLC: Katarina's conversation with a Male Avatar in the Rogues and Redeemers chapter heavily implies she was in love with Kris, if he was male. If Awakening's Avatar is female, the conversation ends after a few sentences. But if they're male, Katarina reminisces about how he reminds her of someone, and goes on about how "strong and kind" they were, and that they'd have a place in her heart even if they were reborn as someone else, before wondering what she's even saying.

There's the pre-fight dialogue if you fight Amiibo!Lucina with Laslow /Inigo. She anticipates his attempt to flirt with her and pre-emptively agrees to have A Spot Of Tea with him after the battle, leaving him visibly flustered by the end of the conversation.

Jakob/Flora is teased twice: once when she mentions in her Birthright boss fight that she has a crush on him, and again in the Spooky Scramble DLC, where he tells her she's one of the few he truly respects, which causes her to swoon. Sadly, no supports means it's never resolved.

The Drama CDs added even more Male Avatar/Azura tease, as well as Female Avatar/Xander and Female Avatar/Leo tease. For the Male Avatar/Azura tease, he accepts her offer to take him on a date around Hoshido, and her thoughts during the berserk scene are shown to be solely on protecting him. For Female Avatar/Xander and Female Avatar/Leo, both of them briefly daydream about her in a swimsuit, and are shown to be frantic with worry when she goes missing.

The most famous and cited instance of teasing occurs when Sora held Riku's hand, kneeled before him, and began crying, all the while sobbing "I looked everywhere for you!" In context, though, it's Not What It Looks Like.

There's the numerous scenes between Kairi and Sora. At one point Sora imagines himself dancing with her, and towards the end they share a heartfelt hug.

The cover art for Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix makes it appear as though Kairi is flirting with Sora.

In The Legend of Zelda franchise, due to the fact that it's canon that each Link is essentially a different version unless otherwise noted, there's plenty of room for shipping with the various ladies he meets on his quest.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess did its share of Ship Teasing. Between the little come-back-safely speech Ilia gives to Link (complete with appropriate music swelling in the background), the hand-holding scene between Link and Zelda before the final battle, and the heartstring-tugging farewell by Midna in which she almost says something emotional to Link, the shippers had a field day... especially considering that Link's a Heroic Mime with no dialogue to offer clues.

There tends to be an underlying vibe to any scene with Link and Zelda in it, and he's shown (and implied via dialogue) to be quite motivated to protect her. In particular, there's a great deal of unspoken emotion in their last scene together, to be interpreted as the player wills.

Shiala, if she survives Mass Effect, comes back in the sequel and is visibly attracted to Shepard, but nothing comes out of it.

In Mass Effect 3, James Vega flirts with a female Shepard, but it never goes further than that. In the Citadel DLC, this possibly turns into a one night stand.

Tali gets flustered around a female Shepard, but she is only a romance option for male Shepard.

Largely lampshaded with Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2, but only if you speak to him enough times and you're either in no current romance or are loyal to one from the first game. It could be assumed this is a playful jab from the writers at those who ship their player character with everyone, but it certainly hasn't stopped people from assuming that Mordin might actually be serious about the possibility of him "trying Shepard."

In the final Mass Effect 3 DLC "Citadel", you throw a party for the crew. During the course of the party, depending on who is alive/present and your relationship status at the time, you can see: Ashley and Vega flirting with each other, EDI making extensive comments on Traynor's attraction to her voice, Shepard can comment on Jack and Miranda's Belligerent Sexual Tension, Zaeed displays a blatant crush on Samara, Shepard's own teasing with Samara can go even further, and Shepard can have a one night stand with Javik, of all people (which they will never speak of again). Tali meanwhile ends up drunk in the bathroom, suggesting a relationship with male Shepard, Garrus, or Garrus and Fem Shep depending on pairings.

We see a few examples of Kasumi's interest in Jacob, from her haiku in Lair of the Shadow Broker, to her comments in the third game, about how Shepard might stand a chance recruiting her again if Jacob was still around. In fact, the relationship between Jacob and FemShep could be seen as a Ship Tease since in ME3, he's ditched her in favour of Brynn Cole.

Persona series

Appears from time to time throughout the Persona series. An interesting case of Tarot Motifs are often at work for teased pairings: expect Persona-users of the Lovers Arcana, which are always female, to hold some sort of romantic interest in the Protagonist. Both Lisa Silverman (Persona 2) and Rise Kujikawa (Persona 4) have overt crushes on their respective leading characters (Tatsuya Suou and Yu Narukami, respectively). The same can be said for Yukari Takeba (Persona 3), but in-story events of that game actually make her P3's protagonist preferred love interest. This carries over in P3 FES' playable epilogue, "The Answer", where her feelings for him makes her want to turn back time and bring him back to life, despite the risks that would be involved.

Aigis's feelings for Persona 3's Protagonist get a lot of attention within the main story, particularly in "The Answer."

In regards to Persona 2, Maya is admired by both Suou brothers, with Katsuya canonically having a crush on her and Tatsuya has the possibility of kissing her at the end of Eternal Punishment. During Innocent Sin, when Maya and Tatsuya are talking in the bunker, he even blushes! Word of God states that Maya was Tatsuya's first crush, though in a more Precocious Crush kind of way, given that they were both kids when they first met. Word of God leaves it up to your imagination if Tatsuya's protectiveness for her in Eternal Punishment is due to her death in the Other Side or deeper feelings. It is established in the ending narration that '...so too has her love, retreated to a world beyond her reach.' Also, the amount of ship tease for Tatsuya and Gay OptionJun is outright legendary, from their exchange of personal gifts to their interactions in a CD drama. In fact, the scenario designer came out and said that if he had full control of the script, he would have had Tatsuya and Jun as an official item from the get-go.

Senran Kagura series

Imu is canonically in love with Miyabi, who doesn't seem to return her feelings...but replies to Imu's promise of Undying Loyalty with "I'll hold you to that", becomes distressed (during her Estival heart storyline) at the thought that Imu doesn't find her attractive, and risks her life to defeat Imu's Superpowered Evil Side, so either way their relationship is definitely open to interpretation.

For a series that tends to avoid the topic of relationships in the games (except for Amy, who is... rather clingy and it seems one-sided), Sonic the Hedgehog has been known to ship tease a few times. Knuckles and Rouge in Sonic Adventure 2, for starters. Then there's the end of Sonic Rush, where Sonic and Blaze have a long stare at each other and are trying to hold on to each other as long as possible before they get separated — Sonic's holding on with both hands. It's as if they're both reluctant to part ways.

And then there's Sonic Chronicles. Being a turn-based RPG by Bioware, it's hardly surprising that you can pursue optional dialogues with your various allies. Sonic/Amy is well-supported, Sonic/Rouge is hinted at if you're sarcastic with Amy, but the real tease is Knuckles/Shade towards the end. Knuckles could just be relieved that he's not the Last of His Kind anymore, but it could also be something more specific.

Also in Sonic 06, some Silver x Amy shippers have jumped at the chance when they saw how cute the scenes with said characters were.

Shipping strikes again in Sonic Boom. While the games are left ambiguous for now, two episodes register as Sonamy episodes; one has Amy ask Tails to shut down a mind-reading robot before it voices her deepest desire (It Makes Sense in Context), while another has Sonic stammering when Knuckles implies that Amy's preparing for a date, the context being that he may be secretly jealous. A third has the cast finding and reading Amy's fanfiction, but goes into no further detail on what that is.

Shadow and Rouge may be closer to True Companions, but even they get this from time to time. In Sonic Adventure 2, he saves her life and gets all Tsundere about it. In Sonic Battle, Rouge returns the favour, referring to him as a "Prince" and telling him that he's, "Not bad looking." There's also the scene in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) where she tells him she'll always be by his side (or if you're playing in Japanese, that he always has friends he can rely on). And Sonic Rivals does this too. Shadow is rapidly getting worried about Rouge when she gets trapped in a card, to the point where he says 'that card's mine' [aka, 'Rouge is mine']. Then in the final cutscene, Rouge gets particularly flirty with Shadow, where she says 'that's my Shadow, why don't we get a peek into our future?' Shadow wants to decline, but Rouge keeps insisting and we don't know if Shadow gave in or not. But this is Rouge, so... you never know.

This happens in Shadow the Hedgehog as well, with, of all pairings, Shadow/Amy. If you complete the dark missions prior to Amy's mission, then do hers and the hero missions until the end, said pathway is called 'The Miracle of Love'. In the last story, Amy is practically swooning over Shadow in this exchange:

Viola and Z.W.E.I Walk the Earth together, despite having no relation to each other than being "kindred spirits". They fight each other only reluctantly, and if Viola wins a battle against Z.W.E.I, she will sadly ask him to wake up (in contrast to her Lack of Empathy towards most people).

Tales Of

Tales of Destiny 2: While Kyle/Reala and Loni/Nanaly are fairly straightforwardly confirmed, Judas and Harold don't have any deep and serious relationship arcs- But there are teasing moments with each other, like Judas awkwardly and uncharacteristically apologizing to Harold for not telling her her brother was going to die on the day the Er'thers won the war, then offering her a shoulder to cry on, a few times when he leaves the party to go check up on what she's doing, and his kind comments (for him, anyways) about her when others are making fun of her. Nanaly, the Team Mom, comes to the conclusion he misses her when she leaves the party for a while and he comments on sleeping better without her around. Harold, on her end, calls Judas "captivating", "interesting", and goes so far as to say it is rare to find someone on her level (when she calls most everyone else stupid). There's also a skit where she says she'd be most interested in dating someone on said level.

There's also the third time you meet Philia, where she recounts Leon's betrayal, saying having to fight him was the hardest part of her journey, and Judas comforts her by saying Leon didn't regret his decisions. It's implied she recognizes him after he speaks to her, which up to that point he was trying to avoid doing.

Tales of Symphonia's creators probably knew that that shipping was inevitable, so they made Relationship Values lead to Multiple Endings. Despite this, there are still scenes that favour the two main female leads more than the others; with the most blatant example being a skit that occurs in Welgaia between Lloyd and Sheena. When someone other than Colette or Sheena is your closest party member, the cutscenes are generally non-romantic, exploring various other types of relationships such as admiration and friendship; but a lot of people seemed to think they were all love options. In the sequel, the Raine and Presea options are promoted to full romantic levels.

It helps that Presea looks like a young girl around Genis' age (but is actually a woman who is a decade older than Lloyd), and Raine is Lloyd's teacher. The Genis/Presea and Regal/Presea ships often get teased; when Zelos suggests that Presea could fall in love with a much older man around Regal's age, Genis gets very defensive.

Genis has a few moments himself where he seems very jealous when anyone else gets close to Lloyd. He'll seem hurt if you don't put him in your party on the occasions when the party has to split up. Meanwhile, when Mithos tells Genis he has to choose between him and Lloyd, Lloyd gets very uncharacteristically defensive in turn, almost yelling at Mithos.

Tales of Graces has Asbel and Sophie. Seven years before the game's events, they start by vowing to protect each other. Then after they reunite seven years later, there is a scene that has Asbel kneeling in front of Sophie, letting out his regrets for his failing her. Then, after Sophie regained her memories they have a date have a little chit-chat at the place where they first met. And remember the 125th entry of The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Clichés, "If any character in the game ever meets any other character standing alone at night looking at the moon, those two will eventually fall in love"? Despite this, Asbel still ends up with Cheria, his childhood friend. This is justified because Sophie is not human, and that he officially adopts her as his daughter.Doesn't stop the shippers, though.

Note: There's another person Asbel meets alone at night looking at the moon, and it's not Sophie or Cheria — it's Richard.

This isn't half as bad as what the cruel, cruel writing team does with potential Beta Couple Hubert and Pascal. In the original game Hubert's crush on Pascal is mostly just implied in some skits, but in Lineage and Legacies they turn it Up to 11. It's outright stated that Hubert is in love with her, and that's the reason he won't marry the president of Strahta's daughter. Richard and Malik are constant shippers on deck and tease Hubert about his crush ceaselessly. There's a half-dozen scenes where Hubert goes out of his way to shield Pascal from attacks. It's even implied by Fourier that Pascal might reciprocate his feelings, though she seems somewhat unaware of them. It gets to the point where Hubert outright confesses to Pascal, "my every waking thought is consumed by you." AND THEN the game yanks it away at the last minute with a Maybe Ever After.Goddamnit, Namco.

It gets teased even further when the two show up as the cameo battle in Tales of Hearts R.

Tales of Xillia 2 did not let up on the shipteasing, either. The official couples are still Jude and Milla. And Ludger with Lara, with whom he'll eventually have Elle. Though the teasing is between practically everyone. Ludger and Jude tend to compliment each other, before blushing in embarrassed silence and Muzét pretty much ships herself with everyone. This skit has her practically shipping herself strongly with Jude, as a shout-out to a moment in the previous game, Gaius and even Ludger. There are also some more-or-less heavy hints between Ludger and Alternate Milla, which was turned Up to 11 in the manga for the game and resulted in Together in Death.

Tales of Zestiria has a ton of shiptease for Sorey and Mikleo. Word of God has said that Mikleo is Sorey's "one and only", and Sorey canonically finds Mikleo attractive (from this skit) - not to mention his description of Mikleo from the novel:

Sorey flicked a glance at Mikleo who was walking by his side. Hair the color of pale aquamarine, skin so fair as to seem translucent, sophisticated violet eyes. Even from his prospective, Sorey thought there was a beauty to Mikleo that would draw the eyes of others.

In a game that prides itself on Ho Yay, Sengoku Basara gives us a little Magoichi/Mistunari ship tease in 3 if you choose (while playing as Magoichi) to side with Mitsunari. Magoichi actually treats Mitsunari's lack of social skills with snark and tends to always engage him in conversation. Mitsunari as a result acts less deranged, angsty and starts answering in words other than threats. When Magoichi asks him why he wants to keep a mercenary group like the Saika he replies : "When you joined the Toyotomi army you became a part of its treasure. There's nothing wrong with a man keeping his treasures to himself" leaving her speechless (at which she comments on his Hidden Depths when he's out of earshot). After killing Ieyasu, Mitsunari walks up to her and demands (in a rather casual way instead of his usual tone of seething rage) "Remake the deal." which can be taken as his way of saying "Don't leave me." and attacks her (the first time she blocked. Here she merely stands still) and stops the blade at her throat and removes it before walking away saying "We have much to do." As he walks away, Magoichi gently (for her) smiles before doing what he asked.

Up to Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2, most people think that Axel Almer and Lamia Loveless could never get along, as almost every appearance they have, they're usually enemies/rivals. The sequel Original Generation Gaiden gives them a chance to fight under one banner, and gives them a subplot that might have linked them together romantically, where the latter feels indebted to the former for saving her life. The end of the story adds Axel, in attempt to find his own paradise (on Lamia's suggestion), promises to tell her first if he ever finds one. Awww...!

The game adds up the teasing about pairing him and Einst Alfimi. There has been a lot of older men/little girl fan pairings in SRW, and both of them traveling together in Original Generation Gaiden all the time attracted the attention of lolicon fans, viewing them as a pair (it helps that Alfimi just happens to be a clone of Excellen Browning, the Alternate Universe counterpart of Axel's deceased lover Lemon Browning, who also happened to have built Lamia). It's also supported with the way she states before their departure: "I may be the only one who understands him."

Ragna is teased with both Noel and Rachel. He also has some teasing with Taokaka a little, but she seems too dumb to understand, so their relationship is more platonic so far. He was also shipped with Celica, but then he went and died. Oh well, it still counts.

Litchi is teased between Bang and Arakune (and despite everyone else thinking that the latter is more closer to Official Couple, the game has been rather vague on her romantic feelings on him so it counts). And occasionally Carl.

Onmyōji has this between Seimei and Yaobikuni, especially the latter's introduction when she tells him that she has been waiting for god knows how long for her "fated one", who is none other than Seimei, to arrive and… kill her. A heart icon even popped up next to her during that moment in order to further drive the point home. Unfortunately, fans like to pair Seimei with Hiromasa or yōkai characters instead.

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has a bit of this between Laharl and Etna. Especially if you read Etna's journal where it's implied that her crush on the King has at least partially transferred to his son.

Also teased is Laharl and Flonne, though whether all the talk of love ever moves into romantic love or not is left up in the air. Still, considering that he was willing to sacrifice his lifeto bring her back to life, it would be hard not to believe that there is something between them.

Though Fuka herself is also teased with Valvatorez, though it was seemingly sunk when she became a Shipper on Deck. However her Epilogue with him implied she was still interested in him but did not want to "break the friendship rule."

In WarCraft, the strong alliance between Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore has raised some... interesting stuff going on between those two. The White Gnomeregan Punch Card also contains "Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." (in binary, but still), and Jaina happens to resemble Thrall's Dead Surrogate Big Sister Taretha from Lord of the Clans. World of Warcraft even gives them nearly identical character models.

It helps that he grew up as the best friend/near-brother of her only past lover (Arthas Menethil, Prince of Lordaeron) and retains a lot of similarities, while she looks scarily like his dead wife and acts as a sort of surrogate mother to his son.

Garrosh Hellscream and and Warlord Zaela got plenty of this, which became particularly apparent when she remained loyal to him long after most of the Horde turned against him and he was defeated, and even after he helped found the Iron Horde.

Solid Snake's codec transmissions regarding Samus Aran in Super Smash Bros. Brawl could be regarded as a form of Ship Tease, since it's all one-sided and we have no way of knowing how Samus feels about the matter. That hasn't stopped them from becoming the game's resident One True Pairing... though the pairing's support has less to do with any perceived teasing and more to do with how their combined sex appeal is dense enough to create a singularity.

Smash Bros WiiU / 3DS gives even more teasing, such as Peach and Zelda fighting over Link, Shulk smashing Link away to play with them both, or Ike offering a flower to Palutena

Interestingly enough, Gears of War 2 has some of this between Marcus and Anya, such as the way Anya asks him to take care of himself when he descends into the Hollow, and Marcus calling repeatedly over the radio at the end to see if Anya is okay, and looking extremely relieved when he spots her on the next Raven helicopter.

The first game kind of hinted at an old relationship when they meet up briefly at the start of the game. You never saw her again, so nothing more came of it.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features Mario getting kissed by each of his female party members (we're assuming that Vivian is female) and no less than four times by Ms. Mowz (which makes Goombella jealous).note Ms. Mowz can also learn a special skill that allows her to kiss Mario at any time for HP recovery.Vivian almost makes a love confession to Mario in the ending, but decides that he and Peach would be a good couple, and Goombella is about to tell Mario something she hadn't been able to express to him before in her last e-mail, but decides to save it for later. Peach has an almost romantic bond with TEC, especially when educating him about human feelings, and by the time Grodus has him deleted for helping her get classified information for Mario, he declares his love for her just before shutting down (he gets better).

Super Paper Mario is a gigantic ship tease for Bowser/Peach fans. They get married in the opening and Bowser constantly declares his love for her throughout the game. Then there's the scene near the end where Bowser stays behind to hold up the ceiling, Peach stays a little longer than Mario and Luigi, and later on falls on top of him off-screen. Considering Bowser is covered in spikes, he probably caught her in his arms or on his chest. Their marriage is never really annulled, either (though Peach quite rightly points out that the event was a sham, since she was forced to participate against her own will).

One popular Ship Tease is Yoshi and Birdo, probably because they're both dinosaurs who are about the same size with one being male and the other being female. Birdo's gender is actually debatable since some sources say Birdo is actually a guy who thinks he's a girl, but there are many fans who believe her to be female, and most of those said fans love to ship her with Yoshi. When this shipping started, the jury's still out on it, but some say it was Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64 that started it.

Because Mario/Peach tends to sit in a strange place between Official Couple and Implied Love Interest, the sheer number of ship teases between the two are almost too numerous to list. Luigi/Daisy is similar, but not as prominent.

After Heavy/Medic grew to prominence amongst Team Fortress 2 fans, hints about their relationship began to be sprinkled about the various supplementary material, such as the Sniper's "Beaux and Arrows" achievement (kill a Heavy/Medic pair) and their strangely intimate interactions during open-heart surgery in the "Meet the Medic" video. Though, the WAR update attempted to torpedo it with the Demoman's Medic-specific taunt that suggests the Medic is married.

Spy/Sniper fans take some of their domination taunts and achievements as ship teasing. But then again, this is the Spy and the Sniper.

As for Bishop, he'll have a few instances of jealousy over the Knight-Commander's relationship, romantic or not, with Casavir, and will offer to run away with her if she has high enough influence.

Also, Elanee/Casavir will be really jealous if you have a higher influence with Neeshka/Bishop than with them. Really jealous.

Elanee: "You're spending more time with Neeshka than with me!"

Casavir: "I don't like how that ranger looks at you."

Some dialogue with Kaelyn in Mask of the Betrayer could potentially be interpreted as this, but not blatantly.

In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, if a male player character tells Mira that they just want to get to know her better, her immediate assumption is that he wants to get her into bed. Her immediate refusal ruins it, though.

You also get a really creepy side-order of Ship Tease for each gender. One is a Sith Lord held together by hatred who thinks the female Exile is beautiful, but he also wants to kill her because she's a Jedi. The male Exile has a Jedi Master who's rapidly sliding down the slippery slope to the Dark Side, who gets jealous of your actual Love Interest and is caught somewhere between hero worship and a serious case of Foe Yay.

For a Female PC Sion wanting to kill you is actually less about you being a Jedi and more about his master replacing him with you and him not wanting you to undergo the same torture he did. So his answer to protecting you from her is killing you before it can happen

Silent Hill 2 has its own expectedly horrifying contributions to the trope with James, a surly individual who traveled to the eponymous town to search for his dead wife, and Maria, an extremely flirtatious and slightly Tsundere woman who reminds James of aforementioned dead wife. For a while it seems as if the two will enter a Replacement Goldfish-esque relationship (and they do in the "Maria" ending), but turns out that not only is Maria a figment of James' imagination formed from a combination of his sexual frustration and refusal to accept his wife's death, but that she's the one who has been unleashing all the horror on James throughout the course of the game, and the Final Boss. Slap-Slap-Kiss it isn't.

Mega Man X fans have shipped X/Zero ever since its first game, citing Zero's Heroic Sacrifice for X and the latter's desire for Zero to be the one to kill him should X go rogue as proof. There's also the (optional) reunion cutscene in X6 in which X looks a bit too enthusiastic (to the point of blushing) when he sees Zero alive and well.

Alia gets some of this with her past colleague Gate, and X; the latter is supported slightly when you observe how she delivers information to Zero professionally, but tends to stutter, hold back, or just shows more general concern with X.

Mega Man Zero has various moments of Ship Tease between Zero (yes, that Zero) and Ciel (who's human, by the way), not only during the series' run, but in the accompanying materials as well. Amongst many, there's this little piece of dialogue before the end of the first game:

"Zero, I'm happy that I could meet you...if it were not for you, everyone would be gone by now... Promise me that you will come back alive. Even if you cannot destroy Neo Arcadia, I just want you to be able to return safely."

"I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it! Ciel, believe in me!"

Resident Evil. The entire series is filled with scope for interpretation for Ship Teases, though there are a few blatant ones that should probably be listed. RE1: the scene where Jill puts her head on Chris's shoulder. RE2: Leon screaming her name when Ada "dies." RE4: Leon almost blatantly checks out Ada's ass as she's leaving the boat in the cinematic just before you begin playing the island. RE5: Jill tackling Wesker through a window to save Chris, or the fact that you get a game over if you kill Jill in the game.

Not to mention Chris was willing to stay with Jill instead of chasing after Wesker, putting the whole world in danger.

In the closing scene of RE4, Ashley all but invites Leon into her pants; he politely declines.

When playing as Chris in the first game, when you save Jill from the basement prison, they hug in an intimate manner.

Also in the fifth game, Jill's under Wesker's control. Chris sounds staggeringly pained whenever Jill is mentioned (as she seemingly died before the events of the game), and the way he acts around her after freeing her is loaded with tension.

Resident Evil: Revelations: Chris acts as though he's Married to the Job and ignores the advances of his mission partner Jessica... at least until Jill gets captured. From that point on, he plows through everyone to save her.

Resident Evil 6: the entire scenario between Sherry Birkin and newcomer Jake Muller is tension galore during their quieter scenes. There's one tidbit where they're trapped in a research facility in China; Jake has nothing but pants on, Sherry's in a skimpy hospital gown, they meet, and...

The Outbreak spin-off even had one in the form of George and Cindy, who shared a Downer Ending together. All the survivors shared one of some sort of pairing, but their's was the only romantic one.

The night before the final battle, Vyse talks to both Aika and Fina and can reassure them one way or another — he can put his arm around Fina's shoulders, and if he says the right thing to Aika, she'll kiss his cheek.

On Clara's ship, Aika and Fina wake up in bed together with no apparent awkwardness at all (it's not what it sounds like, to be fair), and when they both mention him to Clara, she promptly assumes they like both him that way.

The part where Aika is holding Fina after she's badly injured on Crescent Isle, while Vyse confronts Ramirez. Or the time where Aika glomps Vyse after they're reunited in Daccat's tomb, where Fina hugs Vyse after he, Aika, and Glider rescue her from Valua's palace, and where Aika glomps Fina out of sheer happiness in the ending. All of these are about as ship-teasing as the aforementioned scenes.

In their cameo appearance in Valkyria Chronicles, Vyse and Aika will call out each other's names if they're injured (and are absolutely beside themselves with worry when they rescue the other and call for the Medic (who just happens to be Fina, compounding it further). Also, if they're close enough to provide supporting fire, they can say things like "Let me help, Vyse baby!"

The Luminous Arc series have it as a part of the gameplay mechanics, both in and out of Intermissions between each game's protagonist and most of their female party members. In the first game, while there's not-so-subtle hints of Alph/Lucia, there's also Alph/Cecille, Leon/Cecille, Nikolai/Cecille, Heath/Iris, Alph/Vanessa (!)...

Luminous Arc 2 brings it back with two potential love interests for Roland, depending on dialogue choices, he can end up with either Althea or Fatima. Beside those two, there's Ship Teasing for Roland/Dia, Roland/Sadie, Roland/Karen... And the blatant teasing for Rasche/Dia can't be a coincidence, especially their teasing about forming their own Final Bond after seeing Roland do it with Althea or Fatima.

Luminous Arc 3's Refi can find himself in this, as well as forming a closer relationship with one of the girls for a Zodiac Card to perform a Unison Strike. For some extra, he is NOT limited to female.

Psychonauts: Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello. Despite being complete polar opposites, in-game bonuses like characters' memories and concept art hint that there might be some more going on than being just co-workers. Psychopedia seems to confirm that yes, Milla has a crush on Sasha, but whether or not he reciprocates is up for debate.

Snow Sakura has this one at the end of Kozue's route with the Bromantic Foil Sumoyoshi and your resident Tsundere Saki, who compliments him on a nice rousing speech to Kozue while blushing noticeably. There were a few fans quite disappointed with Digital Objet not doing more with it.

Lux-Pain. You can pair roughly half the cast with each other and it makes at least a little sense.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood teases at Lucy and Desmond. In the first game, they were simply working together, with only vague hints that she was on his side up until the end. The sequel had a little bit of ship teasing, but not a lot. By the time of Brotherhood, though, it's quite clear there's some unspoken mutual attraction there, especially in one of the out-of-Animus sequences where Desmond and Lucy have a brief, heartfelt conversation while looking up at the moon. Then there's the ending...

The Harvest Moon games set in Forget-me-Not Valley have Rock with the female PC. He's one of the potential Love Interest characters for you, so what's so odd about that, you ask? The fact that the game continues to tease PC/Rock even after one or both of you get married. Rock will continue to make romantic comments toward you even after you marry someone else, and once he gets married, his wife Lumina will chew him out about it.

Although Guybrush and Elaine were already neatly paired and Happily Married, this did not stop the developers of Tales of Monkey Island from throwing some Ship Teasing (along with Ship Sinking) moments between Guybrush and his fangirl, Morgan Le Flay. Noticeably in The Lair of the Leviathan and Rise of the Pirate God.

The ending of Portal 2 is a parade of Ship Teasing. First, the Turret opera heavily hints that GLaDOS may actually deeply care for Chell (especially considering the English translation), further solidified by the ending song "Want You Gone", which may as well have been titled "Tsundere: The Song/" Second, Chell's final scene has her reunited withCompanion Cube. Third, the very final scene has Wheatley lamenting all the bad things he did, and that all he wants to do now is apologise to Chell.

Some Chrono Trigger fans have latched on to Crono and Lucca, in large part due to Lucca being the only other character to embrace Crono in a cutscene on his revival if Marle isn't in the party.

Although the series as a whole doesn't do much in the way of ship teasing, the bonus game Professor Layton's London Life has a very subtle one that hints at the possibility of pairing the two young people in the Professor's life — his apprentice Luke and his adopted daughter Flora. It's especially hinted in the way Luke reacts rather violently to the possibility that Flora has been kidnapped.

Solatorobo teases Red x Elh enough during the main game, but the DLC quests take it Up to 11. In #5, they both act embarrassed when Red sees Elh in her cheerleader outfit, and she's disappointed if Red doesn't manage to beat the track record (which is the condition she agreed to in order to wear that outfit in the first place). In #7, she gets extremely upset when Red has Princess Terria and Toffee fangirling over him, and in the end Red admits he wanted to give her the tournament prize as they make up. #8 borders on "They Do with the Serial Numbers Filed Off", as it eventually turns into an Interrupted Declaration of Love. It also teases Béluga x Merveille a couple times, with him giving her a hologram of flowers and losing an arena match because he was trying to show off too much.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, there seems to be quite a bit for Monkey and Trip, especially evident in the end of the fourth chapter where they share a rather long Held Gaze, after Trip scans the dog.

You'd think the Street Fighter series would be exempt from this trope, but the chemistry shared between series leads Ryu and Chun-Li invoke this hard. Ryu respects her abilities greatly and considers her to be a very good friend, while Chun-Li has a lot of admiration for him and enjoys fighting him every chance she gets. The fact that they're in everycrossover title together only encourages things.

IIRC, even if it doesn't come up in the games themselves there's some spin-off media (comicbooks, etc) that explicitly states they are either now, could be or had in the past been in a relationship.

There's also the fact that Sakura's Hero-Worshipper tendencies to Ryu have pretty much evolved into her having a blatant crush on him. Seriously, the girl actually refers to Ryu as "dreamy" in one of her post-fight quotes against Sagat, in The Ties that Bindshe gives him a Cooldown Hug after he almost falls victim to his Superpowered Evil Side and then stays by him when he has an Heroic B.S.O.D. because of that, and both of her endings have her either helping Ryu after he destroys BLECE (IV) or him dropping by to visit her (Super IV).

Guy and Rose get a pretty hefty dose of this in SSFIV, perhaps unintentionally. The idea behind Guy's Rival Battle with Rose is that Guy is trying to stop Rose from facing Bison, something he failed to prevent in Street Fighter Alpha 3, because he sees it as Rose being a martyr, but the romantic subtext comes on strong for anyone who's seen their fight (their banter in-battle consists of, among other lines, Guy somberly asking Rose to reconsider, Rose sorrowfully proclaiming that shedoesn'twant to die, and both fighters apologizing before unleashing their Ultras) and their linked endings (Guy becomes fiercely protective of Rose and unusually emotive when Bison abducts her, and Rose is roused back to life by Guy's concerned urging). This becomes stranger if you take into consideration that, according to Final Fight 2, Guy already has a fiancee.

Male/Female: Almost all of Mary and Terry's interactions. Athena's light (and semi-canon) crush on Kyo (despite Kyo having a girlfriend). Kensou's blatant crush on Athena. Jhun being a total Athena fanboy, to the point that at least one fighters will get nervous at the thought of fighting her because they know he'll react badly. Almost everything regarding Ryo and King. Shen openly telling Vice and Mature that he loves strong and sexy women. etc.;

Male/male: Iori's murderous obsession with Kyo, which is very easy to interpret as a borderline Stalker with a Crush deal and gets lampshaded by other people. Shingo's behavior to Kyo, which isn't too far from a man-crush. Shen and Duo Lon's very slashy Odd Friendship. Shen's Foe Yay with Oswald. etc.

However in the latest lead-up to the Sion remake, Riot has released a surprising amount of Ship Tease between LeBlanc and Swain. Although hints of their association/relationship has been present in the lore since LeBlanc's League Judgement, this is the most highly visible reveal of their relationship directly by Riot. As if to make this association between the two champions more explicit, the latest skin for LeBlanc is called Ravenborn LeBlanc - featuring various elements that resemble Swain, including feathers that resemble his raven form's, a figurehead on LeBlanc's staff that resembles Beatrice, and having new green particles that match Tyrant Swain's green coloring. This is also likely the only example of a champion skin being themed around another champion.

Halo seems to do this between Master Chief and Cortana (even though Cortana is an AI), especially starting in the third game when Chief rescued Cortana from the Gravemind. In the fourth game, Master Chief goes to extraordinary lengths to try and save Cortana when her programming begins to rapidly deteriorate due to rampancy. Cortana ultimately performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Chief, but not before revealing her deepest desire was to be able to touch him once before she dies. In Halo 5: Guardians, Chief is clearly shaken up by her death, and goes AWOL the moment he realizes she might be alive. For her part, a revived Cortana still wants John to be at her side. Unfortunately, the two end up at odds against each other when John realizes that Cortana has jumped off the deep end.

The original StarCraft had many of these between Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan. From the first time they met when it was shown that Raynor had some attraction to her from the start and even to Kerrigan's mission on New Gettysburg where he tried to convince her not to undertake the mission due to the danger. The second game takes this even further with almost every character seems to refer to Kerrigan as Raynor's girlfriend in one form or another.

At one point, Serana mentions that she spent a long time slumbering with her Elder Scroll and jokes that she thought she should know more about something after sleeping with it a lot. The Dragonborn then gets the chance to suggest that Serana wants to know him/her better. She declines. Later on, when confronting Lord Harkon, a Dawnguard aligned Dragonborn can respond to Harkon's accusation that s/he would kill all vampires, including Serana, by saying that "Serana means too much to me." Harkon will remark, with an almost-defeated tone, that Serana "was lost to me the moment she accepted a mortal into her life."

This is teased to some degree in Thor: God of Thunder, a game set before the events of Thor itself, after Sif is impaled and becomes temporarily dead. Her death enrages Thor and causes him to seek vengeance, to the point where Odin worries that "Thor will slaughter and bring holocaust" if he doesn't do anything. It probably doesn't help that she died in Thor's arms either.

Odin (discussing bringing Sif back to life and interfering with fate): "If I do not, I fear that Thor will..."

Loki: "Thor will defy you and wage war against the Jotuns from now until Ragnarok."

Mid-way in Jak II: Renegade, there is a scene which Ashelin flirts with Jak, while Daxter outright ships them together. It's more common in the next game, even outright going as far as to show them kiss, even though the camera pans down. Of course, by Jak X, the shipping stops completely, and Jak finally gets to kiss Keira.

If your PC in Saints Row: The Third uses Female Voice 2, she'll repeatedly imply that she's got a thing for Pierce, from expressing concern for him during "We're Going to Need Guns" to flirting with him during quest dialogues. During the "confession" scene in the penultimate quest "Three Way", whereas other Bosses will admit their secrets with some trepidation, Female Voice 2 will shamelessly confess "I want to make love to Pierce in front of a live studio audience!"

There's also a one-off line from random city residents, asking a Female Boss if she and Johnny are going to hook up with Aisha out of the picture.

Numerous NPCs ship Ness and Paula in EarthBound. Also, what was Paula going to say to Ness that she "forgot"?

In the Neptunia series, there's a lot of these with Neptune and Noire when they're both together on screen. Neptune has no problems glomping on Noire, exchanging pudding with her, and seeing that Noire is just tsundere for her. Noire meanwhile will always help out Neptune whenever she's in trouble but she'll always make an excuse about it. And in Megadimension Neptunia VII, Noire has finally admitted that without Neptune, she did feel a bit lonely. Too bad Neptune just had to lampshade that Noire's back to her Tsundere self.

In Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit gets some of this with Viridi, the Goddess of Nature. Though Viridi is initally introduced as an enemy, and plans to exterminate humanity, the rest of the game forces her to team up with Pit against bigger threats, and she becomes Tsundere for him. Palutena even lampshades it at one point. It's even more obvious in the Japanese version, where Palutena outright calls her a Tsundere, to which she responds with even more typical Tsundere lines.

Several cases of this happen during the Baldur's Gate series. The PC's childhood friend Imoen is very close to them, to the extent the first half of the second game's plot is about rescuing her, yet they never become anything more than Just Friends. Probably for the best, as they end up being actually half-siblings.

In the Enhanced Edition for the first game, the PC can flirt with all the new companions of the appropriate gender, with the possibility of a Relationship Upgrade in the Enhanced Edition for the second game.

Dota 2 usually has very little 'romantic' encounters (barring the obvious ex ones like Vengeful Spirit/Skywrath Mage). But... when Crystal Maiden gets her Announcer Pack, she has special positive calls when the player picked Sven, and if the game goes idle long enough, she'll start wondering just where Sven is, this in addition of her getting really curious of what's under his armor if they encounter each other in-game and in the same team. Sven-Crystal Maiden has been a rather popular Fan-Preferred Couple for a long time.

The original duology has Felix unhesitatingly jumping off the top of Venus Lighthouse to try to save Sheba. The two of them probably get mentioned the least in Dark Dawn, so it's one of the few ships from the original duology that was neither confirmed nor sunk.

Isaac/Jenna was teased quite a bit in Lost Age, and the ending doesn't upgrade them to Official Couple...but the next game, set 30 years later (and released seven years later), does, which means it would no longer qualify.

Dark Dawn steps it up quite a bit. The game starts out with a Two Guys and a GirlChildhood FriendsPower Trio, and the sheer amount of Belligerent Sexual Tension between Tyrell and Karis makes them seem like the more likely couple but on the other hand Karis seems nicer to Matthew and he's The Hero. Then Sveta shows up, and Matthew actually merges souls with her at the conclusion of the game, making for an obvious Ship Mate to Tyrell/Karis...if not for the sizable amount of Les Yay between Karis and Sveta, leading to the major Ship-to-Ship Combat being Matthew/Sveta and Tyrell/Karis vs. Matthew/Sveta/Karis. "Sizable amount" Early on, Sveta outright says, "Karis, you are a good person. I like you very much." After the activation of the Grave Eclipse, as the party is sailing away from Belinsk, the five male party members stay out on the deck to fight off the monsters while Sveta, who was just forced to leave her only living relative, her older brother, for dead, was allowed to rest below deck; Karis went below deck as well. The next morning, Sveta seems to be in much higher spirits, and Eoleo, who also lost a family member in the escape from Belinsk, comments that she looks as though nothing happened. Sveta blushes at this comment.

Also Nowell's disappearance when Kraden returns is explained as her following Piers, who she's evidently taken a fancy to.

Overwatch: Two of the pre-battle dialogues for Valentine's Day have Mercy and Genji give each other a box of chocolates.

Rottytops, the resident zombie, is a merciless flirt. Nearly all of this flirting is directed at Shantaenote (although she does give Bolo a quick glance, too). In the very first game, when she barely even knows Shantae, she says that she likes her passion. In Risky's Revenge, the very first thing she does is call Shantae "snack cakes," and according to her brothers Abner and Poe, is talking about her near-constantly. Then along comes Shantae and the Pirate's Curse in which she does the following...

Fakes a leg injury so that Shantae will carry her through a dark forest (in a bridal carry, at that!)

Follows Shantae to Tan Line Island, where they both end up in ridiculous outfits. Rottytops is thrilled that they match.

When Shantae finds Rotty's human soul on Mud Bog Island, she (unknowingly) gushes to Shantae... about Shantae, and worries about the ways she keeps screwing up their friendship.

Invites herself to Shantae's for a sleepover at the end of the game.

While the teasing is toned down a little in Half-Genie Hero, Rottytops does call Shantae "snack cakes" again, and when she asks Shantae to come to Cape Crustacean with her, she makes it sound like a date.

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